Amphibians
Amphibians
Reptile Mimicry
By Paul Donovan
The animal world around us is full of impersonators who would have you believe they are something they are not. Harmless species do this, by playing on the strength and reputation of...
Amphibians
How Herps Navigate
By Paul Donovan
There are some questions you get asked which, on face value, you give an answer to but upon reflection later, make you wonder if you gave the correct answer. Take this one....
Amphibians
A Trip in Search of Amphibians of Botswana
By Paul Donovan
You could be forgiven for thinking that a country whose land mass is comprised of 84% of the Kalahari Desert, and is arid as a piece of sandpaper, you’d be hard pressed...
Uncategorized
Skin Colour in Nature
By Paul Donovan
Why that colour?
Colouration is used for many purposes in the animal world. For example, birds use it for courtship, where males are often vibrantly coloured, and when combined with often elaborate dances,...
Amphibians
The Red Toad – Schismaderma carens
By Paul Donovan
Frogs and toads love the rain, and as we have been having an awful lot of it over the past few weeks, it comes as no surprise that just about everywhere is...
Amphibians
Ameerega in the Mist: Keeping A. hahneli ‘Tahuyao’
By Tijl of @Urban__Jungles
Foreword
First, a quick introduction! My name is Tijl and I am a frog enthusiast from Belgium. I have been keeping and breeding different species of dart frogs since 2010. Back...
Book Review
Book Review: In Search of Lost Frogs by Robin Moore
Review by Casey Cannon
When most think of extinction they tend to think of the large, charismatic animals lost to time. The eight-ton woolly mammoth or the forty-foot-long Tyrannosaurus. Right now, the Earth is believed...
Herping
Herps of Wyoming
By Isabella Carroll
When you hear the name Wyoming you normally wouldn't think it would be a place full of all sorts of reptiles and amphibians. Wyoming is a huge landlocked state in North America...
